DIPLOMACY: The Elemental Force

"Nikita Sergeevich, I salute you on
American soil," said the U.S.S.R.'s Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov
at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. last weekand there he was. There on
American soil was Nikita Khrushchev, short, bald and portly, wearing
a black suit, Homburg and three small medals, bowing down the receiving
line, accepting a 21-gun salute, parading past a guard of honor. There
on his one hand stood his pleasant, shy wife Nina Petrovna, his
daughters Julia, 38, and Rada, 29, his studious-looking son Sergei, 24,
and a retinue of 63 officials...